Amazing animation. “In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview. This was in the midst of Lennon’s ‘bed-in’ phase, during which John and Yoko were staying in hotel beds in an effort to promote peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it.” [via DS]
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Watched by Matt Linderman on December 9 2008. There are 16 comments.
JD 09 Dec 08
Beautiful!
Fred 09 Dec 08
Beautiful. Makes me miss John, as well. Makes me feel old to think that I am the establishment now and I don’t think there are many artists with the courage Lennon had to challenge borders and preconceptions.
JIm 09 Dec 08
Why are you only showing 1/4 of the frame?
robert 09 Dec 08
um. also, it was nominated for an academy award last year and you can get it through itunes?
it is a very cool animation though!
Geoff 09 Dec 08
The embed tag is missing width and height attributes, so in firefox you only see about 1/3 of the video…
J Lane 09 Dec 08
Sweet, I live in nothing.
Vance 09 Dec 08
The walrus was Paul.
I’m just sayin’.
Mimo 09 Dec 08
Great done. Respect. Hard Work. Those illustrations of the videos are great. There are quite a few very well done, but they don’t add really more information to the audio.
Charlie Park 10 Dec 08
We’re all Hitler inside. We’re all Christ inside.
smartminion 10 Dec 08
am I the only one that things this is all just hippie philosophical nonsense? cool animation though.
MC 10 Dec 08
Nothing = Canada… that was a good one. :)
Dave 10 Dec 08
@smartminion if you think peace is ‘philosophical nonsense’ you should rethink some of your values.
Lukw 10 Dec 08
wow
Eric 10 Dec 08
Laughing out loud about the Gap commercial at the end of the video with all of these “stars” dancing and wearing Gap clothes. We have certainly come a long way. Startling contrast.
Great video by the way.
Sean 10 Dec 08
Thanks for posting this! The imagery was fantastic.
This reminded me why John was always my favorite Beatle…
zephyr 10 Dec 08
“profound whatever”...
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